RAMALLAH, January 15, 2014 (WAFA) - Israeli school books are full of incitement against the Arabs and call for their hatred, a report by the Ministry of Information said Wednesday.
It said that school books do not mention anything about peace with the Palestinians, yet they talk about peace everywhere else in the world.
It said schools bring soldiers to kindergartens on national
events to tell stories about an “imminent” danger that comes from Arabs.
The report gave examples of books that incite against Arabs
and said in a geography book for the third grade, the authors, B. Ahia and M.
Hervas, claimed that “the Jews have owned every inch of Palestine even in Galilee,
West Bank, on shores, or in the desert.”
In the book of “National Education” for high school students,
the author, Shalom Abker, mentioned that “Israel is located in the middle of
Arab countries, that are planning to eradicate Israel from world map, and if
they don’t carry out their threats today, that is not because they don’t want
to, but rather because they could not, so Israel must keep them unable to do so.”
In a story for kids that is taught in the Israeli education
curriculum titled “Dust in the eye,” there is a Jew who advises another one
saying: “Arabs are like dogs, if they realize that you are afraid of them and
you do nothing, then they will attack you, but if you hit them they will be
afraid of you….they will run away.”
In other short story titled “The Old Warrior,” which was
written by Yore Evans, the story starts with this dialogue: “The little girl
asked me: Who stole the moon? I said: Arabs. She asked: What will they do with
it? I answered: They hang it on their walls. She wondered: What about us? I
told her: We turn the moon into small lamps to light the land of Israel… all of
it. Since that time, the little girl still dreams about the moon and she still
hates Arabs because they stole her dreams and her father’s too.”
A poem titled 'Tale” and taught in Israeli schools is full
of hate to Palestinians, said the report.
It says: “Zeev is a small child….he lived on this land … When the invaders (Palestinians) surrounded the city... Zeev died…how did he die? …Nobody knows... Did he die of hunger?...Or under torture? …Was it a stray shaft? Or under horse hooves? ... Nobody knows. But… do you want to die like Zeev?..NO....So point your guns to Arabs.”
The report also included a review of incitement against Arabs and Palestinians in various sectors of the Israeli society.
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